Ides of April holiday
B E W A R E of the I D E S of A P R I L
It is amazing how many major damaging events have happened historically in mid-April!
1204
Constantinople sacked by the 4th Catholic Crusade.
1775
The "shot heard around the world" was fired. Colonial Minute Men took on British Army regulars at Lexington and Concord, Mass. starting the American Revolution.
1861
The Civil War began. Fort Sumter was captured. President Lincoln issued a Proclamation of Blockade.
1865
President Lincoln was assassinated and buried.
1882
Evolutionist Charles Darwin died. Darwin became an agnostic, admitting he had lost his Christian faith and belief in God because he was addicted to killing innocent animals and birds, and no God stopped him.
1889
Hitler born in Braunau, Austria, became the dictator of Nazi Germany.
1906
Devastating earthquake ruins San Francisco.
1913
Date set for payment of US Federal income tax.
1915
Poison gas used by the Germans for the 1st time in WW I.
1926
Queen Elisabeth II born, member of an elite family involved in the push for a New World Order.
1933
The US goes off the gold standard, and the dollar becomes a fiat currency backed by nothing of value.
1940
Nazis invade Denmark and Norway.
1942
USS Hornet aircraft carrier sends planes under Doolittle to bomb Tokyo Japan and other cities.
1944
The US explodes 1st nuclear bomb at Eniwetok Atoll, Marshall Islands in the South Pacific. In August Hiroshima & Nagasaki were nuclear bombed, assuring Japans loss of the war.
1946
The League of Nations is shut down and the UN starts.
1951
Gen McArthur who defeated China was relieved of command by US Pres
1963
Bay of Pigs disaster in Cuba 1,700 Cuban patriots were betrayed, and at the last minute, having their US close air support taken away, went ashore to their death.
1967
Abortion, the murdering of innocent babies, was legalized in the US
1970
Strange explosion of Apollo 13 propulsion system.
1971
In Swann v Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education,
the US Supreme Court rules that busing of students can be ordered to achieve racial desegregation. Although unwelcome in local school districts, court-ordered busing began.
1973
Karl Bernstein and Bob Woodwards revelations in the Washington Post caused US President Richard Nixon to be thrown out. On April 19th Woodward revealed the 1st direct link between Watergate and the White House.
1983
The US Embassy in Beirut Lebanon was bombed.
1984
The upside-down broken cross peace symbol went into use and began to be promoted world-wide.
1986
The Russian nuclear Chernobl plant exploded, spreading radiation poisoning all over Europe and the Russian continent.
1993
The 50 day siege at Waco Texas ended when the FBI & US military attacked the Branch Davidian spiritual retreat with tear gas and tanks, which they burned down, killing over 80 religious men, women and children.
1995
The Alfred P Murrah Federal building in Oklahoma City was bombed. 168 people, including 19 children, were killed in the worst terrorist attack in US history.
1997
The US Panama Canal goes back to Panama, with US taxpayers paying New York Banks the 18 billion $ interest loss they suffered on defaulted loans. Then Panama immediately sold the Canal to China, who now has submarine nukes pointing at more than 16 US cities from 900 miles south of the US Gulf Coast.
1999
The Columbine High School in Denver Colorado murders happened. Two drug-influenced students shot and killed 12 classmates and one teacher the largest school shooting in US history.
2001
Saddam Hussein was removed from power in Iraq
neo-con Negroponte was named US Ambassador and took over control of Iraq. He later became czar of all US intelligence gathering agencies, and then head of the World Bank.
2004
On April 19 in Israel Mr Vanunu, who exposed the Dimona Israel weapon stockpile of over 400 nuclear bombs, was let out of jail but kept in a tight grip, not allowed to talk to foreign press or leave Israel.
2005
Benedict XVI was selected to be Pope.
2006
Hu from China, enemy #1, visits the US and
lies - saying they are peaceful.